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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1341696" data-attributes="member: 1656">Eeee.  Second-creepiest PbEM experience I've had involved a group with two male players who were both playing stereotypical gorgeous drow women (one might have been half-drow, from memory), who, a few days into the campaign, decided the characters had become lovers, and spent most of the in-character dialogue calling each other sickly pet names, making out, or commenting how they couldn't wait to get to the inn tonight...Aiee.On the other hand, it's not normally a problem.  I've played my share of female characters, and an encouraging number of the female characters played by male players that I've come across have not been described as ravishingly attractive, which is always nice.I took it as quite a compliment once when several months into a PbEM game, someone referred to me in an OOC comment as "she", and several players expressed surprise when I corrected him - apparently I'd avoided the cliches successfully enough that they'd assumed it was a female running the character.But one of the more memorable cross-gender characters for me was an elven Ranger/Rogue in a FTF game - the player had modelled the character's personality on Phoebe from Friends (or perhaps Ursula), and played her in hyperditz mode with a piercing falsetto.  The voice was contagious... at one point we had everyone at the table, bar one too-macho-for-this holdout, speaking in the same squeaky tones.Horrible, but somehow horribly amusing at the same time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />-Hyp.</blockquote>

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